The 27th IEEE International Symposium on a
World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks,
IEEE WOWMOM 2026
Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers 2026

Next edition of IEEE WOWMOM 2026 will be in Bologna, Italy, in June 16-19, 2026.

SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
IEEE WoWMoM 2026 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life, be it for communication services, media distribution, or sensing and actuation services within the Internet of Things (IoT). Appropriate resource management, application design, and architectural networking paradigms are necessary to provide users with high quality experience in multimedia communication and services. Edge computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices and the plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications. At the same time, the interoperability among IoT environments (including wearable computing and sensors), the network edge, and the cloud are evolving towards an IoT-edge-cloud continuum that is expected to support a wide range of application domains and services in a seamless and efficient manner. In this context, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing and understanding the behavior of such complex systems is of paramount importance.

IEEE WoWMoM 2026 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation or analysis. We also welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned and open datasets from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments.

SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST
The main areas of interest for the conference scope are illustrated in alphabetical order, but not limited to the following:
- 5G/ 6G networks for mobile and multimedia services
- AI-assisted management and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- AI/ML-based Quality of Service prediction and Network Optimization
- Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Behavior-aware human-centric multimedia networks
- Blockchain-based solutions for Wireless and Multimedia Networks
- Connected mobility and services for vehicles, drones, road users
- Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile, CDN and multimedia networks
- Context-awareness in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Digital twin/shadow for wireless, mobile, IoT and multimedia networks and systems
- Energy efficiency for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Edge and Fog Computing for Multimedia and Real-Time Services and Networks
- Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) multimedia networks
- IoT-edge-cloud continuum for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking and services
- LLM for multimedia networks and applications
- Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services
- Machine Type Communication (MTC) technologies and services
- Mobile social networks
- Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Network traffic characterization and measurements
- Participatory, mobile, crowd and urban sensing
- Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) enabled multimedia networks
- Seamless inter-networking and self-organization
- Security for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Self-healing and scalable networks
- Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization and slicing for wireless and mobile networks
- System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, experiences and open datasets
- Sustainable and Power-Efficient Multimedia Communication and Services
- Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Quantum Wireless communication and computing and secure communication protocols for 6G
- Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC)
- Wearable Computing
- Wireless Communication for Autonomous Systems (e.g. drones for surveillance)

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal.

DOUBLE BLIND REVIEW PROCESS
WoWMoM 2026 will adopt a double-blind review process.
Authors must make a good-faith effort to anonymize their submissions. Specifically, the authors should not identify themselves in any content within the paper either directly or indirectly (e.g., through references). Where relevant, authors must refer to their previous work in the third person write as if it was written by a third party. However, authors should ensure that any anonymization of their work is not destructive. For instance, omission of references to papers just because they are the authors' previous work should be avoided, as this could prevent reviewers from finding that related paper for the purpose of the review. Submissions violating anonymization rules will not be considered for review.

Although submission is double-blind, non-anonymous preprints (on arXiv or other preprint servers) will not lead to the rejection of your paper. Reviewers will be instructed not to actively look for such preprints before completing a first read of your paper, but encountering them will not constitute a conflict of interest.

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be made electronically through EDAS. The EADS Link for submission will be activated on July 30th 2025.

Authors can submit regular or work-in-progress papers (appropriate category to be selected upon submission).

REGULAR PAPERS
Regular papers submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 points or greater. See IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.

WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS
WIP (Work-in-progress) papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research and obtain feedback from their peers in a poster session. Work-in-progress papers submissions may be up to 4 pages in length (including figures and references) and must have the prefix "WIP:" in the paper's title.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Papers due: December 5, 2025
Acceptance notification: February 19, 2026
Camera-ready version due: April 18, 2026

ACCEPTED PAPERS
An author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate. The paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference. Exceptions can be granted if compelling reasons are sent to the TPC Co-Chairs with a written request indicating an adequate substitute presenter before the conference. Accepted papers (both regular and WIP) will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2026 which will be published through the IEEE Xplore digital library.

All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. Furthermore, IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference, for unjustified reasons.

BEST PAPER AWARD
All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. A committee will select three best paper candidates based on the reviews received and also the quality of presentation. The winner will be announced during the conference. For any additional information, please contact the PC Co-chairs.

JOURNAL FAST TRACK
Papers with special merit will be considered for fast track publication to Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier.

TPC Co-CHAIRS
Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy
Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University in Boston, USA